Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dowd 's head thrashed to and fro as this indignity was visited upon him , only once raising his gaze to stare accusingly at Godolphin , who was too busy about this undoing to return the look . |
| 2 | On being told about this Guntram followed the dragon 's route and discovered some treasure , which he originally determined to send to Jerusalem , but then decided to use for a ciborium for the church of St Marcel at Chalon . |
| 3 | Enough statistics have been circulating about this venture to sink the Titanic . |
| 4 | During this period following the collapse of Roman rule in the West , sometimes still called the ‘ dark ages ’ , Western Christians rethought the culture they had inherited from the ancient world . |
| 5 | The prevalence of conflict in Gascony during this period reflects the vulnerability of minors to the political ends of their elders . |
| 6 | Parallels for this treatment include the tilted squares in the geometric designs of the Great Witcombe and St. Nicholas Street mosaics : the main tilted squares in the former are decorated with guilloche mat . |
| 7 | For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months . |
| 8 | I was a little surprised to hear yesterday the views of Mr about the need for this plan to identify the location or the general location of the new settlement . |
| 9 | Ironically , the cost of maintaining the manpower and machinery necessary for this performance killed the Evening News . |
| 10 | The climax of the fortnight was the Grand Edwardian-Ball , which was the most important occasion of the whole winter , and thinking up suitable costumes for this event kept the ladies occupied for weeks beforehand . |
| 11 | This conclusion was based on the premises that ( 1 ) it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of a provision of Community law ; ( 2 ) article 30 was such a provision ; ( 3 ) if Wickes is right that section 47 of the Act of 1950 is incompatible with article 30 , it has a current right to open its stores for Sunday trading , and it is the duty of the national court to protect that right ; ( 4 ) in the absence of an undertaking in damages , Wickes will have been restrained from opening on Sundays , without any right to compensation ; ( 5 ) there is no need for this purpose to assess the strength of Wickes ' challenge to section 47 on the basis of article 30 , it being enough that the challenge is not without foundation : see [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 985 , 993 , per Dillon L.J. , and pp. 999–1000 , per Mann L.J . |
| 12 | The ‘ rich ’ — which for this purpose means the top two-thirds of the population — pay in full for GP consultations and prescriptions ; they also pay £10 a day for hospital stays . |
| 13 | The use of jadeite amulets for renal complaints in seventeenth-century England stemmed ultimately from the Aztecs , whose use of the material for this purpose aroused the interest of their Spanish conquerors and , as we have seen , gave rise to the word jade . |
| 14 | For this purpose consult the Air Pilot , or the Flight Guides . |
| 15 | Instinctive acceptance of a corporate identity for this constituency forced the party into an integrative role on two distinct but related fronts . |
| 16 | ( For this calculation use the following values for the relative atomic masses of the isotopes involved : 5. ( a ) ( i ) Use the basic assumption of the kinetic theory of gases to derive the expression for an ideal gas . |
| 17 | The government 's own team have recognised that morale in teaching is low and that the position this year is significantly worse than last , yet the government have for this year ignored the findings of that particular report and it 's all tied up with the whole issue of pay , workload etc .. |
| 18 | He misinterpreted the Act and he failed to allow himself to have the jurisdiction to deal in a flexible manner with the children , which is the whole purpose of the Act , and consequently it is for this court to make the order that it appears Judge Galpin would have liked to have made and felt impeded from so doing . |
| 19 | Accordingly , it is for this court to consider the application of article 10 to the question whether a local authority may sue for libel ; and in my judgment Morland J. was wrong not to do so . |
| 20 | So my the , in my mind the best way forward is for this council to promote the right to buy and I fully support this motion and I would urge members of this council to ignore the report that comes back from the housing committee . |
| 21 | The lack of a contingency plan for this eventuality left the all-important Army of Africa , together with its commanders , General Franco and Colonel Yagüe ( who , under Franco 's orders , had been in charge of the Legion during the repression of the Asturian revolutionary movement in 1934 ) , stranded on the far side of the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 22 | Noting the claim of central and local government that they are simply the servants of the public and not its masters , the discussion paper for this seminar raises the question of whose values inform policy decisions which affect local communities . |
| 23 | There are no events planned for this weekend to mark the anniversary of his birth . |
| 24 | The method used for this test followed the recommendations of a recent working team report . |
| 25 | For this design knit the single teddy starting on the seventh stitch to avoid knitting part of the balloon . |
| 26 | ‘ We have trained the nurse caring for this infant to recognize the first signs of desire for food . |
| 27 | For this theory to give the observed value of the strong force between particles , the strings had to be like rubber bands with a pull of about ten tons . |
| 28 | Possible explanations for this pattern include the fact that nouns generally refer to concrete objects that can be easily described and related to other objects . |
| 29 | For this solution to describe the interaction region of colliding waves , the coordinates must satisfy the inequality . |
| 30 | John Coles has suggested a model for this area demonstrating the variety of land uses available to prehistoric communities in the Levels region and , as we will see later , this implies a situation much in evidence and more easily proven in the Middle Ages . |